Facebook - This plugin requires the allow_url_fopen php.ini setting.

aarun_ss

I tried to enable Facebook plugin for my forum. But i am getting the following error. What is the solution for this? Kindly help me on this.

Error: This plugin requires the allow_url_fopen php.ini setting.

Todd

Just that. It requires that setting. If you are on a host that does not allow you to change your php.ini then the facebook plugin will not work.

pengodam

@todd Thank for responds

nicepaul

My host does let me change the php.ini file, but I still have no idea what I should do, even though I now understand that it "requires that setting".

This response is very unhelpful. It might as well be saying "and if you don't know what that means, you shouldn't be touching it anyway".

peregrine

nicepaul said:
My host does let me change the php.ini file, but I still have no idea what I should do, even though I now understand that it "requires that setting".>

This response is very unhelpful. It might as well be saying "and if you don't know what that means, you shouldn't be touching it anyway".>

Perhaps True. The person who asked the question in the above post seemed to be satisfied.

It's really a question for php forums if you don't know how.

Perhaps you could have framed your response:

"Could someone please give me assistance on how to change it"

Here's a list of links to possibly help you - I have not done it myself, so this all I can provide.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.list.php

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/127534/should-i-allow-allow-url-fopen-in-php>

probably throw the lines in the top of index.html
or default.master.php or default.master.tpl or whatever those names are.